The latest winners of CYPS Employee of the Month and representatives of the CYPS Team of the Month are pictured below receiving awards from Dorothy Smith (CYPS Senior Director - Schools and Lifelong Learning ).
The Extended Services Team has been working with Rotherham’s Learning Communities to offer an eggstra special programme of fun activities over the Easter holidays for children, young people and families.
Children at a Kimberworth school have been showing their imagination - and tickling their funny bones at the same time.
The youngsters from Meadow View Primary's foundation unit have been using the books sent to them by Rotherham's Imagination Library as the basis for a variety of learning opportunities in lessons.
They took the book 'Funny Bones: The Pet Shop' as a starting point, leading to all manner of activities related to the story of two skeletons and their pet dog.
That included:
- Organising a 'skeleton tea party', writing invitations to parents and making lists of the food the children wanted at the party.
- maths work using pictures of bones and skeletons to do addition and subtraction
- pet shop role play
- art activities, again using pictures and models of skeletons and bones.
The work culminated in the skeleton tea party there were extra activities such as making skeleton costumes for the children to wear, icing biscuits to look like skeletons, and the children completed drawings with pastels and paints of skeletons.
The Imagination Library is a book gifting scheme and each month every child registered with the library (from birth to age five) receives an age appropriate book, addressed personally to them. The books are provided by Penguin UK, and sent directly to the child through Royal Mail's distribution network.
Since its launch in 2008 more than 17,000 children have been members of the scheme and the current figure taking part is over 12,600 - 82% of Rotherham's total population of under-fives.
The Library has close links with the borough's children centres and family learning within the borough to encourage projects such as the one at Meadow View which are using the books as a way of promoting learning for the children as well as interaction between parents/carers and children to improve communication, language and literacy skills.
Rotherham's parents and their children are leading the way when it comes to having their voices heard.
A multi-million pound scheme has completed the transformation of a former secondary school into a state-of-the-art hub for services helping children and young people in Rotherham.
Clarry Wilson, who was Principal Youth Adviser and Head of the Youth and Community Service in Rotherham between 1974 and 1989, has sadly died.
The Mayor of Rotherham, Councillor Rose McNeely, this week officially opened a centre providing a base for services across the borough.
Award Winners for January and February 2011
Work has begun on a £3.4 million flagship centre which will provide state-of-the art new facilities for young people across Rotherham.
Launch event - 23rd March 2011
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